Software Development
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Platforms always win
The blogger in me is always alert. Usually I don’t feel it is there, sleeping like my dog at my…
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Using the Raspberry Pi to program a Microchip PIC (PIC24) device via ICSP
Why would someone want to do that? Well, basically for two reasons. First, the classic: “this should be possible” –…
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Going multi DC with Cassandra : what is the pattern of your cluster ?
I’ve been working at Chronopost, the French leader of express shipping, for most my carrier. In 2013, fed up with…
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We did it wrong, but not all was in vain
Yes, there was over engineering. Loads of it. Back in the mid 90s, when I started my career as a…
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Quantified Self Meets IDE: A Year of Data
More than a year ago, I started tracking exactly what code I was working on using WakaTime. As I’ve moved…
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Recognizing hand-written shapes programmatically: find the key points of a rectangle
A far-fetched goal I have is using sketching on a whiteboard as a way to define programs. I mean formal…
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Quick Access to Eclipse IDE Features
As Lars points out on the ide-dev mailing list, a lot of Eclipse IDE users aren’t aware of some very handy…
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Encryption is not Binary
If you ask someone if they require encryption on their device, first of all, you will likely get one of…
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Let it crash
“Let it crash” is a watchword in the Erlang world that has a pretty specific meaning in that context, but…
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